Anyone who attended the live training webinar on October 8, 2018 should have received a link to the recorded session. Since then, we have downloaded the video and published it on our OCPS servers so that everyone, even those … Read the rest
Time To Take a Survey
In the last post, we looked at polls which are a great way to ask a single question of your site visitors, but what if you need to ask a set of questions. Of course you could use multiple … Read the rest
See You at the Poll
See You at the Poll
In this post, I’ll take a look at how to use the Poll portlet. Next time, I’ll look at the Survey portlet. For now, let me just say that the poll is great for tracking … Read the rest
Sorting Within the Document Container
Recently it was discovered that the Sort by Column feature in the Display Settings of the Document Container did not actually sort the files or folders within the container. This information was passed on to SchoolMessenger. I recently received word … Read the rest
Formatting Within a Content Portlet
Let’s say you have a document with the following text in the main Page Content area (although this technique will work in any content portlet) which you first directly typed your text into the design area.
Initially, all of the … Read the rest
Page Links vs External Links
When you look at the top-level navigation in your school site or the side navigation in your department site, you may have a series of links as shown in the following two images:
For a School:
For a Department:
In … Read the rest